Nortroll  Products


 

Fault Passage Indicators for Cable
Fault Passage Indicators for Over-head Lines
Remote Control and Surveillance
Automation
Communication 

 

 

 


Don't waste time and money! Let the NORTROLL system track down your faulty sections and save you the guess work and time involved in traditional methods of switching during faults...

NORTROLL has gained considerable experience in the field of fault location and remote control in distribution networks since 1977. We offer a full range of equipment that is operating under the most extreme climatic conditions:

A reliable energy supply is a must in all modern societies. The NORTROLL system is a cost effective way to reduce outage times, thus improving the quality of supply.

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Fault passage Indicators for Cable Networks


CableTroll 2000
Fault current sensing system for cable networks from 6 to 36 KV

 



CableTroll 2500
Earth fault indicator system for 6-36KV cable networks.

 



CableTroll 2700
The Cabletroll 2700 is a complete system for indication of earth-fault and short circuit faults in  an underground 6-36 kV cable network.

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CableTroll 3500
Intelligent Directional Fault-current indicator for 10-24KV underground cable.


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Fault Passage Indicators For Line Networks


LineTroll 10F-20F-30F
Phase Mounted Fault Indicator For 6-66KV Overhead Line


LineTroll 110E
Phase Mounted Fault Indicator For 6-66KV Overhead Line

LineTroll 111K
Pole Mounted Fault Indicator For 6-66KV Overhead Line

LineTroll 3000
Pole mounted fault indicator for 6-66KV Overhead Line

LineTroll 3500
Intelligent Directional Fault-Indicator for 6-132KV Overhead Lines

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ComTroll® Surveillance and Automation System  


The electric utility industry is experiencing an increasing demand for a more efficient and cost-effective operation of the distribution network. De-regulation, increased competition, demand for better quality of supply and penalty for non-supplied energy is becoming the everyday challenge for an increasing number electricity distribution companies. 

Changes in the industry have resulted in an increasing interest in distribution automation and surveillance as one means of  meeting the new demands for customer satisfaction and profitability. 

NorTroll’s system for distribution automation called ComTroll® is designed for remote control, surveillance and automation of secondary rural and urban distribution systems.  

ComTroll is a modular system with different building-blocks allowing the utilities to tailor-make a system to meet their own demands for functionality and complexity.


NORTROLL offers:

Fault passage indicators. 

Software for remote control and surveillance of the network. 

Outstations for remote operation of overhead line and underground cable switchgear. 

IInterface for easy integration of the ComTroll system with other SCADA systems.

The ComTroll system is developed to identify the fault-location, isolate the faulty section and restore the healthy part of the system in a minimum of time.


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Communication:  

The ComTroll system is based on the modern and flexible LonWorks® technology with the integrated LonTalk® protocol. The system is very suitable for use in independent as wells as shared networks. LonWorks technology is an open architecture and provides a high level of interaction between products from Nortroll and third party vendors.

LonWorks technology is extremely robust and reliable, ensuring the high level of performance demanded by the utility industry.

LonWorks allows Nortroll to utilise a wide range of communication carriers such as radio, twisted pair, power-line carrier, fibre-optics and telephone/GSM 

LonWorks technology is based on distributed intelligence enabling fast and efficient communications with a minimum of traffic.    

Nortroll has specialised in Radio communication (VHF/UHF) and has adapted the LonWorks technology to be used in an independent radio infrastructure, allowing the use of repeaters to ensure the radio coverage to remote out-stations and indicators. The system allows for an out-station to act as a repeater for other out-stations or fault indicators.  

Nortroll has further developed the system to allow the repeaters to be structured with Sub-net addressing to ensure a minimum of traffic and a maximum of throughput ComTroll Independent radio infrastructure  

Low power consumption allows the outstations and repeaters to be charged from a solar-panel making it very simple and cost effective to build the radio infrastructure. No need to think about availability and cost of bringing mains to the different locations of the outstations and repeaters. This avoids the necessity for considering the cost and availability of mains power at all locations of the outstations and repeaters.  


Building-blocks:   

The NORTROLL system consists of different building-blocks, ranging from software for monitoring and remote control of the network to outstations with integrated RTU’s and fault indicators for overhead-line or underground cable. All products have been designed with the focus on high modularity and flexibility, very low current consumption, a non proprietary protocol, and an easy integration with other SCADA systems.


NetTroll® and NetDraw®  

NetTroll is a micro SCADA system for remote operation of switchgear, monitoring of indicators and switchgear status and collection of other useful information for the different operation and maintenance of the distribution network.  

NetTroll offers a graphical, user friendly system, with an intuitive man machine interface. The system runs on the Windows NT/2000/XP operating system. PC hardware requirements are: 200 MHz Pentium II processor, 64 MB Ram a minimum of 500 MB available disk-space.  

NetTroll Features:  

User adaptable graphics

Event log / Alarm Log

  • External alarm (GSM/SMX)

  • Easy network configuration

  • Easy installation of new outstations and indicators.

  • Integration with other SCADA systems    

  • NetDraw is a drawing editor for NetTroll and gives the user full control of the screen graphics. Symbols for outstations and indicators can be chosen from the symbol library or can be designed by the user (bit-maps).


ComTroll  220AR , 225AR and 220A

ComTroll 220 is a series of actuators for remote control of overhead line switchgear and can be mounted on all switchgear with a vertically operating rod. The actuators can be configured with or without spring assisted operation. The actuator is powered by a 12VDC battery (solar or mains charged) and can be equipped with a modular Minirack RTU or a compact RTU.   

 


ComTroll  220 BR and 225BR

ComTroll  22X B/BR is a series of  Outstations for operation of already motorised switchgear such as reclosers and ground mounted actuator driven switchgear.

The outstations can be equipped with mini-rack or a 19” rack shelf. All RTU’s can be run from a 12VDC battery. (Mains charged only). The ComTroll 22x BR can be supplied with cabinets for outdoor mounting.  


ComTroll 155 A/B (Compact RTU)                                                                             

ComTroll 155 A/B is a compact RTU with RTU, modem, radio DC/DC charger all built in to one unit. The ComTroll 155A/B can be used for remote control of one actuator or one motorised switch. The ComTroll 155 A/B can be supplied with a cabinet for outdoor mounting.

NOTE! Product will be available Q2-2003.


ComTroll Repeater

The ComTroll stand-alone repeater can be based on the hardware of the compact RTU or the ComTroll 2XX B/BR. The repeater can be configured with Domain and Subnet filtering, keeping the radio traffic to a minimum. Any Nortroll RTU can be configured as a combined repeater extending the radio coverage to outstations further out in the network


RTU Alternatives.

Nortroll Outstations can be equipped with a variety of RTU’s. From the compact RTU offering a simple low-cost solution for operation of one switch to the modular rack based RTU 20/25 offering  a different numbers of input’s and output’s.

The RTUs has a very low current consumption and can be powered from a 30W or 60W solar panel.

Battery alarm and general digital inputs for monitoring of indicators or other types of alarms from the outstation. The RTU-25 has two analogue inputs giving the operator the possibility of monitoring the voltage or current level at the outstation.

The rack based RTU can also be equipped with a GPS based time-tagging module marking each of the telegrams from the outstation with the time of the event. The time-tagging has an accuracy of +/- 5milli second. (Timetagging only available together with RTU-25 Minirack Stations). Please Contact Engineering Department for further information.  


ComTroll 610/625

ComTroll 6XX is a hardware relay SCADA interface system. It allows Nortroll outstations to be interfaced to a SCADA front end RTU in the primary Substation. The modular system is 19” rack based and holds 7 (SIU-20) or alternatively 5 ( SIU-25) cards in each rack. A number of 19” racks be stacked vertically sharing the same power-supply, radio and modem This integration allows the Nortroll outstations and indicators to be monitored and remotely controlled from the existing SCADA operation centre. 

The ComTroll 6XX can be equipped with SIU 20 or SIU 25 SIU cards giving a choice in the number of I/O.  


ComTroll 620

ComTroll 620 is a software SCADA interface system. It consists of a PC running NetTroll and a protocol converter. The PC communicates with the existing SCADA CPU or a front end RTU on a EIA-232C serial link and to the outstation through a separate communication unit with radio and modem. IEC-870-5-101 and ABB-570 protocol converter is available. Other converters will be developed upon request. Please contact Engineering Department for further information.


LineTroll® 3500 Indicator for overhead line

The LineTroll 3500 indicator can be integrated into a SCADA system through its optional radio module or by connecting the indicator output-relay to an existing RTU with built in communication.

The indicator is directional for earth-faults and has separate indications for earth-faults and shortcircuit-faults. In addition to indicating the type of fault the indicator can distinguish between permanent fault and transient fauls.

LineTroll 3500 can be used in networks with isolated or resistor earthed neutral as well as compensated networks.(Petersen-coil).


CableTroll® 2700 Indicator for underground Cable  

The CableTroll 2700 can be integrated in to SCADA system through the ComTroll 150/155-ICU Indicator Communication Unit or by connecting the indicator directly to any existing RTU with built-in communications.

The indicator has separate outputs for earth-faults and short circuit faults and offers a range of different power-supply alternatives.  


ComTroll 155 Indicator Communication Unit.    (ICU)

ComTroll 155 communication unit for indicators is based on the ComTroll 155 RTU with a different software. Up to six indicators can be connected to one unit and provides full integration of cable fault indicators into ComTroll system  


NorTroll Engineering

NorTroll Engineering department provides a variety of services to the utilities to ensure maximum performance of the  ComTroll system. Services available from Nortroll Engineering are: radio survey, planning of the radio infrastructure, installation and commissioning, tailoring of software and training.


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AutoTroll® Feeder and Network Automation.  

The AutoTroll concept has been developed to further maximise the value of the ComTroll system. Automatic disconnection of a faulty feeder or a reconfiguration of the network without the need for operator intervention will further reduce the outage-time  and restore power to the healthy part of the system in less than a minute. The total time to restore power is dependent on the complexity and the number of outstation involved in an automation scheme.


Feeder Automation.

Input from a LineTroll or CableTroll fault passage indicator to a Nortroll RTU can locally initiate an opening of a switch. The output from the indicator can be delayed to make sure that the outstation receive the command to open the switch after the indicator has verified that there is a permanent fault on the feeder. The outstation will then open the switch when the line is de-energised before the delayed re-closing appears. When the delayed re-closing appears the faulted feeder or branch will have been disconnected and the healthy part of the feeder will be restored.


Network Automation.

An automated sequence can be programmed in the AutoTroll module within the NetTroll micro SCADA software. A sequence can include a number of  outstations even from different feeders. Different events in the  network or RTU I/O states can be set as a Trigger or an Inhibitor for an automated sequence. Triggers and inhibitors are set up in a step-table describing what should happen. When a trigger occurs the AutoTroll system will start a sequence of opening and closing switches according to the step-table for the sequence. The automatic sequence will isolate the faulty section and reconfigure the network unless an inhibitor prevent the sequence being executed. The AutoTroll feeder and network automation can be used in a stand alone Nortroll system or in systems where the Nortroll outstation are integrated into other SCADA systems.

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